Today there are two new cases of COVID-19 to report in managed isolation in New Zealand. There continue to be no cases of COVID-19 in the community.
It has been 67 days since the last case of COVID-19 that was acquired locally from an unknown source. Both cases reported today are returnees who are staying at the Sudima Hotel in Christchurch.
The first case is a woman in her 20s, and the second case is a woman in her 30s. They are from the same extended family, and both arrived back in New Zealand from Afghanistan on a repatriation flight on July 2.
Both tested positive as part of routine testing around day 3 of their stay in a managed isolation facility. That brings our total number of confirmed cases to 1,186, which is the number we